SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE!

Last night, our leader, our President, Donald Trump gave a speech that was meant to be unifying. He spoke about many accomplishments and milestones that our country has experienced during the past year. One great example, was when he touted the lowest unemployment rate among African-Americans in history. The camera panned to the Congressional Black Caucus who sat looking like someone had just whispered to them that their dog had just died.  You see, good economic news for America is disastrous news for the Democrats.  You might say, well isn't the reverse true when there is a Democrat president?  It might be.  There is no way of knowing. Democrats traditionally damage and destroy economic prosperity. No surprise to any of my readers that I thought Donald Trump gave a great, positive uplifting speech last night....  But what about official Democrat response given by Joe Kennedy III.

That hateful, speech given my Joe Kennedy who was spewing so much bile, it literally leaked from his mouth in some kind of glistening spittle. And I want to give credit to the producer of the Imus in the Morning Show, Bernard McGuirk who asked this question, which I will paraphrase:

What was with the broken car in the background? Did they fish out his uncle's car from Chappaquiddick?  

You need to have a twisted sense of dark humor to find that funny. I found it funny.

Really, what was the point of the car with its hood up serving as background to the  Democratic response to the State of the Union address?  I am sure it was a very erudite and scholarly metaphor for something. Obviously I am too stupid to understand it.

Your Food Diary For:

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Instant oatmeal Apples and Cinnamon	780	162	9	18	1,020	72
Met Rx Big 100 Chocolate Cookie Dough	400	58	6	31	167	28
	1,180	220	15	49	1,187	100
L U N C H
Subway Sun Chips Harvest Cheddar	210	27	9	4	320	3
Subway Seafood Sensation	820	100	38	26	1,480	16
	1,030	127	47	30	1,800	19
D I N N E R
Subway Sun Chips Harvest Cheddar	210	27	9	4	320	3
Subway Turkey Breast Foot Long	560	92	7	36	0	14
	770	119	16	40	320	17
S N A C K S
Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey, 1 Cup	600	60	36	8	70	56
	600	60	36	8	70	56
Totals	3,580	526	114	127	3,377	192
Your Daily Goal	2,210	276	73	111	2,300	83
Remaining	-1,370	-250	-41	-16	-1,077	-109
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 280 extra calories from exercise today

from thisdayinquotes.com

One of the most famous quotes in sports history is linked to the date September 28, 1920.

On that day, “Shoeless Joe” Jackson supposedly admitted during testimony to a grand jury that he was one of eight Chicago White Soxbaseball players who took bribes to let the Cincinnati Reds win the 1919 World Series.

It came to be known as the “Black Sox scandal” and it was devastating for baseball fans.

A crowd of fans were gathered outside the Cook County Courthouse where Jackson was testifying.

Word spread among them that their hero had admitted he’d helped throw the series to the Reds.

According to legend, as Jackson left the courthouse, a heartbroken young boy went up to him and begged: “Say it ain’t so, Joe.”

It’s legend rather than fact because there are holes in various aspects of the story.

For one thing, there’s no court record of Jackson admitting he was involved in fixing the game – and, publicly, he always denied it.

In fact, in 1921, he was found innocent by a Chicago jury.

In addition, quotation experts have determined that the legendary quote is a misquote of a quote that was probably fabricated by a reporter in the first place.

STATE OF THE UNION

Tonight is the first State of the Union Address to be given by our recently elected President, Donald Trump. There are a dozen unpatriotic, anti-American, moronic Congressman who are refusing to attend. What dopes! Another moron, this time a Philadelphia Eagles player has already announced that if his team wins the Super Bowl and a White House invite is coming, that he won't go. What a dope! America is in the middle of a Civil War, let's hope that the good guys win. Again.

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Your Food Diary For:

Monday, January 29, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Bagel With Cream Cheese, 2 bagel	800	116	24	26	1,560	8
	800	116	24	26	1,560	8
L U N C H
Subway - Seafood Sensation	820	100	38	26	1,480	16
Subway - Sun Chips- Harvest Cheddar	210	27	9	4	320	3
	1,030	127	47	30	1,800	19
D I N N E R
Kroger - Chicken Pot Pie	700	59	45	15	933	11
	700	59	45	15	933	11
S N A C K S
Met Rx - Chocolate Cookie Dough	400	58	6	31	167	28
	400	58	6	31	167	28
Totals	2,930	360	122	102	4,460	66
Your Daily Goal	2,029	253	67	102	2,300	76
Remaining	-901	-107	-55	0	-2,160	10
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 99 extra calories from exercise today

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NINE MILE HIKE

Finally after another week of way too much inactivity, I got myself outside for a brisk nine mile urban hike in Chicago yesterday.

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Your Food Diary For:

Sunday, January 28, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Instant oatmeal Apples and Cinnamon	780	162	9	18	1,020	72
	780	162	9	18	1,020	72
L U N C H
Hissho Sushi - Sushicado Tuna Roll	800	143	10	28	1,337	0
	800	143	10	28	1,337	0
D I N N E R
Campbell's - Wedding Soup	400	52	10	24	1,640	16
Sheetz - Bagel With Cream Cheese	800	116	24	26	1,560	8
	1,200	168	34	50	3,200	24
Totals	2,780	473	53	96	5,557	96
Your Daily Goal	3,593	449	119	180	2,300	134
Remaining	813	-24	66	84	-3,257	38
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,663 extra calories from exercise today

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STAR TREK DISCOVERY

For much of 2016 and virtually all of 2017 I was casually looking forward to watching the newly announced Star Trek series being produced by CBS. The series premiere aired on CBS last September. It was OK, but it was not enough to inspire me to sign up for cbs all-access to watch additional episodes.  I am currently enjoying a five week free trial of cbs all-access and I caught up on the series and have been watching it week by week for the past three weeks. The series is beginning to grow on me. It uses a much more modern storytelling technique than the original Star Trek from the 1960's, Star Trek Next Generation or Star Trek Voyager.  Star Trek Discovery has a 15 episode story that it has been unfolding and it is compelling. As different as this Star Trek is form its earlier incarnations, it is still Star Trek.

Your Food Diary For:

Saturday, January 27, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Apples and Cinnamon	780	162	9	18	1,020	72
Met Rx Chocolate Cookie Dough	400	58	6	31	167	28
	1,180	220	15	49	1,187	100
L U N C H
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich	700	55	31	17	286	31
Libby's - Sweet Peas	245	42	2	14	1,050	21
	945	97	33	31	1,336	52
D I N N E R
Panda Express Brown Steamed Rice	440	75	11	10	420	2
Panda Express Honey Walnut Shrimp	400	30	26	16	520	10
Panda Express  Broccoli Beef	300	26	14	18	1,040	14
	1,140	131	51	44	1,980	26
Totals	3,265	448	99	124	4,503	178
Your Daily Goal	2,038	255	68	102	2,300	76
Remaining	-1,227	-193	-31	-22	-2,203	-102
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 108 extra calories from exercise today

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STAR TREK BOLDLY GOES INTO THE CLASSROOM

I was not the best student in grammar school, although I skated through with a some timely help from my parents as well as on the strength of my innate intelligence. This plan kept me going into high school, although it sputtered  quite a bit once I hit biology, chemistry, physics and calculus.  My college career was not an overwhelming success as I had not developed the proper study habits required.  Obviously, I was taking the wrong courses.  I am sure I could have easily 'aced' a class on Star Trek, like the one currently offered at UC Davis in California. Now that's something I could have easily sank my teeth into.
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from theaggie.org (The California Aggie)
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Star Trek as a Social Theory: To Boldly Go Into the Classroom

DAVID MADEY — SCIENCE@THEAGGIE.ORG

January 25, 201818

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  UC Davis students learn how fictional universe mirrors our own

For over 50 years, the science fiction franchise “Star Trek” has captivated millions of fans worldwide. And at UC Davis, you don’t have to travel across the universe to take a ride aboard the USS Enterprise. There’s a class for that.

Anthropology professor James Smith, a “Star Trek” fan himself, is the Captain of the ANT 191: Topics in Anthropology starship crew. The course title is “Star Trek as a Social Theory.”

“This course uses ‘Star Trek’ as a vehicle for understanding critical themes in social theory and anthropology, while also teaching students how to think about ‘popular culture,’ television, and daily life anthropologically,” Smith said.

Each week, students watch a single, 42-minute “Star Trek” episode in addition to assigned readings and in-class discussions analyzing social and anthropological theory. The series acts as a cultural map, mirroring the social constructions of one universe and comparing it to our own.    

“It reflects the optimism of the Kennedy era in the U.S., and also presents an opportunity for us to question some of the assumptions informing that optimism,” Smith said.

Students examine questions like: Should there be a universal standard for making ethical decisions? Does technology make us “more human” or does it enslave us? 

“I want students to think seriously and critically about what these imaginings of future entail so they can learn to understand some of the cultural assumptions that are packed into them,” Smith said.

Currently, the class is watching episodes from “Star Trek: The Original Series” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” but Smith says he may explore more of the franchise in the future.  

On Dec. 4, the UC Davis Human Rights Lecture Series explored how “Star Trek” can be used as a tool for students to examine human rights-related topics. And now, for the first time at UC Davis, “Star Trek” has become the framework for an academic course.

Human Rights Studies Director Keith David Watenpaugh and Chancellor Gary May co-hosted the event at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. The title of the series was “Star Trek/Human Rights: To Boldly Go to Human Rights for All.”

“Certainly in the 50 years since ‘Star Trek’ appeared, talking about, contesting, fighting, and dying for human rights has been a definitive element to being human,” Watenpaugh said.

The “Star Trek” franchise inspired May to pursue the sciences at a young age. With a background in electrical engineering and computer science, May did just that.  

“I’m thrilled to hear about the new ‘Star Trek’ class and I hope to visit it, along with another class called the Science of Superheroes,” May said. “As many people know, I’m a ‘Star Trek’ fan — the original series — and one of the reasons I like it so much is because it deals with broader issues of the human condition: rights, race and ethics.”

As such, May jump-started a 10-year campus-wide initiative entitled, “To Boldly Go.”  The plan seeks to increase UC Davis’ national ranking by strengthening the university’s research expertise and growing a diverse community that represents the demographics of California. A final plan is scheduled to completed this July.  

May is also an aficionado of other superhero franchises like the “Avengers,” “X-Men” and “Justice League” because of their pursuits for good.  

“I want students to feel empowered to be like superheroes — agents of their own success, their careers and their destinies — to do some good in the world,” May said.  

The class will also explore the more specific themes of “Star Trek” such as politics, freedom, translation, empire, capitalism and more. 

“The numerous episodes that responded to human right issues in the 1960s still resonate with us today, and also give us a sense of how people in that era were thinking about rights and also the timeless nature of human rights questions,” Watenpaugh said.

The end of the course entails a creative writing assignment in which students imagine that they are a part of a Klingon or Vulcan High Council. As a member of the council, the students must go revisit the year 2018 and write an ethnographic report on some aspect of the community from the lens of either a Klingon or Vulcan standpoint. The assignment gears students to explore the issues inherently constructed in our society.

“In the Star Trek world, this utopian future emerges after apocalyptic events in our current near future, so there is a message about the end of the world not in fact being the actual end, but rather the beginning of something else,” Smith said.

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Your Food Diary For:

Friday, January 26, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Instant oatmeal - Apples and Cinnamon	780	162	9	18	1,020	72
	780	162	9	18	1,020	72
L U N C H
Subway - Seafood Sensation	820	100	38	26	1,480	16
Chips - Chips	375	38	23	5	425	3
	1,195	138	61	31	1,905	19
D I N N E R
California Sushi Sampler	600	92	18	12	1,800	16
	600	92	18	12	1,800	16
S N A C K S
Klondike - Klondike Bar, 1 bar	250	29	14	3	70	23
	250	29	14	3	70	23
Totals	2,825	421	102	64	4,795	130
Your Daily Goal	1,972	246	65	99	2,300	74
Remaining	-853	-175	-37	35	-2,495	-56
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 42 extra calories from exercise today

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Saturday Weight 251.3 lbs

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MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN RONALD REAGAN

I would have voted for a ham sandwich over Hillary Clinton. When I voted for Donald Trump for President, I did not believe that he would really do half the things that he said he would do. I did not believe that he would govern as a conservative. I barely believed him to be a conservative. In fact, I thought he might be a just slightly left of center, compared to off the charts far-left Hillary Clinton. None of this mattered, from my perspective, a choice for Donald Trump was the superior choice to Hillary Clinton. I was wrong. Donald Trump has continued to surprise me. He has nerves of steel. He does not give a fig what the bi-coastal elites think of him. He (correctly) knows that Americans with real jobs, appreciate him. He has governed as a conservative. In fact, he has governed even more conservatively than Ronald Reagan did in his first year in office. I would have never believed it. But it is true. Donald Trump has out-Reaganed Reagan.  It's official: Donald Trump has governed even more conservatively than Ronald Reagan. Who'd a thunk it? Not me, I admit it.

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from gateway pundit

Conservative Heritage Foundation Rates Trump’s First Year Better Than Reagan’s

January 25, 2018 by Jim Hoft Guest post by Joe Hoft

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News Flash to Conservatives in the Republican Party – According to the Heritage Foundation President Trump did an amazing job in his first year in office – even better than conservative and American icon President Ronald Reagan!

The New York Times reported that the conservative Heritage Foundation ranks President Trump as doing even better than conservative icon President Ronald Reagan in the first year of his Presidency –

The Trump administration has pursued policies that have hewed remarkably close to the recommendations of a leading conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, which found in a new review that nearly two-thirds of its ideas had been carried out or embraced by the White House over the past year.

Not one to dwell on the details of governing, President Trump has shown a considerable degree of deference to groups within the conservative movement like Heritage, leading to a rightward shift in social, environmental, immigration and foreign policy.

 The results, Heritage found in its review, exceeded even the first year of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, whose tenure has long been the conservative gold standard.”

The Times continued that as the horrible Obama years came to an end –

Heritage began developing in 2016 a list of 334 policy prescriptions that a new Republican administration could adopt. It included a variety of actions, like reimposing work requirements for welfare recipients, ending the program that shields young immigrants brought here illegally as children, withdrawing from the Paris climate accord and eliminating certain gender identity protections.

Heritage said that 64 percent of those items were enacted by the administration either through executive order or another means of enforcement, or included in Mr. Trump’s budget, which has not been voted on by Congress.

In Reagan’s first year, only 49 percent of Heritage’s wish list items were embraced by the president or enacted. At the time, Heritage identified a familiar problem for why the administration’s policies were wanting. In almost every federal agency, Heritage said in November 1981, “delayed appointments, unqualified or misqualified appointments, or the appointment of individuals who are not committed to the President’s goals and policies” had delayed or thwarted policy changes.”

President Trump incurred his fair share of challenges during his first year but his results were historic –

It’s time for all conservatives and freedom fighters in the US to get behind this President who stands tall in the face of unjust and slanderous attacks from all sides.  President Trump is Making America Great Again!

Your Food Diary For:

Thursday, January 25, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Hy-vee - Oatmeal - Apples & Cinnamon	770	161	11	21	875	42
	770	161	11	21	875	42
L U N C H
Culver's - Butterburger "the Original", 2	720	78	32	40	1,020	12
	720	78	32	40	1,020	12
D I N N E R
Grilled Teriyaki Chicken	360	10	16	44	640	10
White Rice	300	65	1	6	4	0
Libby's - Sweet Peas	245	42	2	14	1,050	21
	905	117	19	64	1,694	31
S N A C K S
Met Rx Chocolate Cookie Dough	400	58	6	31	167	28
	400	58	6	31	167	28
Totals	2,795	414	68	156	3,756	113
Your Daily Goal	2,041	255	68	103	2,300	76
Remaining	-754	-159	0	-53	-1,456	-37
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 111 extra calories from exercise today

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